Antonyms for sleep
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : sleep |
| Phonetic Transcription : slip |
Definition of sleep
Origin :- Old English slæpan "to be or fall asleep; be dormant or inactive" (class VII strong verb; past tense slep, past participle slæpen), from Proto-Germanic *slepan (cf. Old Saxon slapan, Old Frisian slepa, Middle Dutch slapen, Dutch slapen, Old High German slafen, German schlafen, Gothic slepan "to sleep"), from PIE root *sleb- "to be weak, sleep" (cf. Old Church Slavonic slabu "lax, weak," Lithuanian silpnas "weak"), which perhaps is connected to the root of slack (adj.). Sleep with "do the sex act with" is in Old English:
- Gif hwa fæmnan beswice unbeweddode, and hire mid slæpe ... [Laws of King Alfred, c.900]
- Related: Slept; sleeping. Sleep around first attested 1928.
- noun suspension of consciousness
- verb suspend consciousness
- The earth was like a slumbering babe, smiling in its sleep, because it dreams of Heaven.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- They say you couldn't walk in your sleep without spending money.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Phœbus protect me, but this is an awful place to speak of those who sleep.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- "You can sleep there," he said, pointing to a cot bed in the corner of the room.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- I'm nearer sunstroke myself than he is—not a wink of sleep for two nights now.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He went dazedly in to him,—and was awakened from the dream that he had been losing a fortune in his sleep.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- "Now, my son, don't you get to going without your sleep," began his mother.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Robert's suspicions were lulled to sleep, and he ceased to be as vigilant and watchful as he had been.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Bight hours was the time Mr. Gladstone permitted himself to sleep.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
Synonyms for sleep
- bed down
- bedtime
- bunk
- catch a wink
- catch forty winks
- catnap
- coma
- conk out
- cop some z's
- crash
- dormancy
- doze
- dream
- drop off
- drowse
- dullness
- fall asleep
- fall out
- few z's
- flop
- forty winks
- hibernate
- hibernation
- hit the hay
- hit the sack
- languish
- lethargy
- nap
- nod
- nod off
- oversleep
- relax
- repose
- rest
- retire
- sack out
- sack time
- sandman
- saw wood
- shuteye
- siesta
- slumber
- slumberland
- snooze
- snore
- take a nap
- torpidity
- torpor
- trance
- turn in
- yawn
- zonk out
- zzz
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